2015 January 19

More on freshman design projects

In Student project ideas for freshman design seminar, I listed some of the ideas students had brought up as possibilities for the freshman design seminar. For homework, I had them each comment on at least two other projects on the class e-mail list. Today, I counted commenters on the various proposed projects for the freshman design seminar:

We’ll discuss possible projects on Wednesday. I think that I can cross out a few as being unsuitable for the lab facilities we have available (no sinks, so wet-lab stuff is not reasonable) or as pointless, and one or two as too ambitious, but most of the projects are reasonable. They vary a lot in difficulty, though, so I’ll have to help the students match their ambition with their willingness to work.